Free 3rd Grade School Counseling Activities (by date, latest first)

Resource geared towards younger students who are experiencing grief. Perhaps they lost a loved one or a pet and need to process their emotions. A perfect follow-up activity to The Invisible String story.

This resource is a great book companion to “The Color Monster.” Students will have the opportunity to engage in four different activities. 

Activities included: 

1. Writing prompt: Students will identify how they’re feeling and why. 
2. Feelings Jar: They’ll have the opportunity to draw what causes certain feelings for them.
3. Symmetrical drawing: Students will get to complete the image of the color monster 
4. Coloring page

Read the book to your students and have them discuss what they’ve heard. Following the discussion, present the activities to them. Can be great for small groups, 1:1 sessions, or whole class. 

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Some students on my caseload are very quiet; either because they are shy, afraid, or simply don’t know what to share. Oftentimes, it can be difficult for them to open up so I created a worksheet that allows them to decide what they feel comfortable talking about. 

Because the worksheet can also serve as a coloring page, most students tend to feel comfortable in deciding their topic of conversation. Students simply color in the heart with the subject they’d like to address. 

This worksheet works well for 1:1 counseling sessions or for teachers who notice a student having a hard time. Simply pull them to the side, or place the worksheet on their desk and have them bring it to you when they are ready. 

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Empower students to cultivate a Growth Mindset with this essential bilingual Self-Reflection Chart, available in English and Spanish. This valuable resource enhances self-awareness by guiding students to identify their strengths, weaknesses, values, and goals. By understanding the transformative impact of a Growth Mindset, students can achieve significant improvements in academic performance and personal achievement.

Teachers can use insights into students' beliefs and self-perceptions to provide tailored support, leveraging individual strengths. Building positive relationships fosters a collaborative classroom environment, enhancing both learning and personal growth.

This resource includes 2 pages:

• A growth mindset self-reflection chart in black and white (English Version)
• Autorreflexión Mentalidad de Crecimiento en blanco y negro (Spanish Version)

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"Friendship is Magic: A Social Emotional Learning Book" is a heartwarming guide to understanding the importance of friendship. From defining what friendship is to exploring how to be a good friend to both others and ourselves, this book is a must-read for children and adults alike. Discover the power of kindness, listening, and support in forming meaningful relationships. Learn how to show appreciation for your friends and nurture these special connections. With valuable lessons on love, support, and laughter, this book is a gem for anyone looking to strengthen their social and emotional skills. Friendship truly is magic!

You many also like:

SEL The Sick Day Blues Book

SEL My Coping Skills Book

SEL The Power of Listening Book

School Rules: Learning to Follow and Respect SEL

Understanding My Feelings SEL

Stand Up to Bullying: A Story of Kindness and Courage SEL

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This weekly goal setting sheet is the perfect way to help students stay on track and monitor their own learning and behavior goals. Mrs. Bell The Crafty Counselor Now included in the School Counselor Monthly Must Haves - August Pack. Stay Connected: Blog Facebook Instagram Pinterest Follow me for updates about new products and sales!

Included in this download are two posters you can use to help teach your students about attendance success!

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• Attendance Success Flipbook
• Attendance Success Small Group Packet
• Back to School Bundle

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Now more than ever, students need to be explicitly taught coping skills and calming strategies. Students need exposure to many calming strategies to learn which strategies best help them to regulate their emotions. Give students a visual of strategies they can use for better self-control and self-regulation with these calming strategy posters. Teach students tactile calming strategies that will decrease behaviors and outbursts while increasing student confidence and achievement.

Download these calming strategy posters and empower your students to learn the strategies needed to remain calm and in control.

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Take it one step further with my 180 calming strategy scripts (separate purchase, not included in this freebie download). That calming strategy activity includes 180 highly visual and engaging calming strategy script cards. Printed on 168 of these cards are various calming strategies, deep breathing techniques for anxiety and anger, and yoga poses. The remaining twelve cards have scenarios that challenge students to put their newly learned calming skills and strategies to the test.

These 180 calming strategies for students are perfect for classroom or counseling office use.

Incorporate these scripts into your classroom or counseling program by using them:

• During Morning Meetings
• Classroom Counseling Lessons
• Small Groups
• As an Intervention with Tiered Students
• Calming Corners (turn the cards into a book)
• Feature a "Strategy of the Day" on the School News (elicit school-wide change)

With these fun and engaging calm-down strategies scripts, the possibilities are endless! Teach students tactile calming strategies that will decrease behaviors and outbursts while increasing student confidence and achievement.

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• Strategy Sticks (Coping Skills and Calming Strategies)

• Sticky Notes Calming Strategies and Words of Affirmation

• Student Attendance Ideas (Small Group Six-Week Lesson Plan)

• What is Bullying? Differences Between Teasing and Bullying

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"Building" a safe, healthy, and happy learning environment starts with the people that we share it with! In this activity, students take on the opportunity of working effectively with others, thinking creatively, communicating respectfully, and cooperation with others all built into one activity! This is a blast for the whole class - all while focusing on so many important SEL skills. This activity includes minimal preparation yet all the benefits of so many social emotional learning skills to build (pun intended!) My students did not want this activity to end!!

Looking for more interactive activities to do with your class? Check out the links below!

Kindness Activity - The Impact of our Words (Upper Elementary)

Kindness "Hot Potato" - Interactive SEL Lesson (Multiple Grade Levels)

Leadership Activity - "Jumping Ships!" (Upper Elementary)

Order up! This adorable activity puts a focus on gratitude and thankfulness - perfect for the fall season! "Spice" it up and instruct students to decorate their "personalized order" anyway that they'd like. You could do so much with this activity - incorporate life skills by asking students to order their own drink, intertwine creativity by asking them to incorporate their own special ingredients into their drink, and then, of course, "fill it up" with all of the things that they are grateful and thankful for! So sweet and fun! This would also make a cute bulletin board as well.

The Book of... sometimes ridiculous but also sometimes funny and waaaay better than doing coursework... Icebreakers! This ice break collection can be used for all school aged children and gives a wide variety of options for different classroom personalities and expectations!

Bring having a growth mindset and positive perspective to life with this activity! It is fun for the whole class and they get a great reminder to take with them! This activity comes set with everything you need to discuss and demonstrate having a growth mindset, perspective taking, and holding a positive point of view. It also pairs nicely with the short story (Rosie's Glasses), but can be used as a stand alone activity as well!

Talk about "which view would you choose" and then have students color away! Depending on the amount of time you have, have students cut out their glasses and glue the rectangles together, or use it as a fun take home follow up activity!

Community building activities come in handy at the start of the year... and beyond! This activity focuses on not only working together and building community, but also allows students opportunity to practice active listening skills with a focus on listening to understand and absorb information rather than listening to respond. This activity is great for the basics of get to know you and team building questions, but could also be used to answer more academic-based questions as well. It is fun, interactive, and engaging, which offers a fun change of pace to the classroom!

Looking for other fun, engaging, and interactive resources? Check out the links below:

Kindness Hot Potato - Interactive SEL Activity

Kindness "Snowball" Fight - Interactive SEL Activity

Leadership Activity - "Jumping Ships!"

Wanting to help your students find ways to show more kindness toward one another? This activity is a great interactive classroom lesson that does just that! With an emphasis on finding the good in every situation and every person, we not only discussed it but we DID IT! It not only boosts self-esteem, but helps students express kindness and gratitude toward others - a win, win! Everything included for your next classroom lesson. Seasonal print-outs to implement this activity year round!

You may also be interested in:

The Impact of Our Words - Kindness Activity

Classroom Kindness Activity - "Snowball Fight"

FREE - Impact of Our Words - Middle/High School Interactive Activity

"Caught Ya Being Respectful" is a fun and engaging activity that not only gets students talking about being respectful and what that looks like, but it also encourages them to make connections of people (that they know and often admire!) that are showing respect around them as well! This activity includes everything needed for your next classroom lesson on respect, including two worksheets (Wanted Poster and Bonus Activity!) as well as different ideas that you can do with the finished products! My students LOVED this and it was fun for our teachers to see the outcome as well. We got a lot of learning and laughs out of this activity!

Are your students struggling to be respectful during a classroom lesson - talking, blurting, and other things going on instead of listening respectfully? This lesson puts the students right in those shoes and gives them a glimpse into what that can be like. Not only is it engaging (and kind of silly) but impactful and real. Everything needed for your next leadership lesson is included in the download!

Looking for other ways to discuss impact? See below!

Promoting Self-Control - The Impact of our Words + Actions (Elementary)

Kindness Activity - The Impact of our Words (Middle School)

The Impact of our Words (High School)

A "Pocket" Full of Kindness - An SEL Activity that focuses on kindness and the idea that you can take it with you wherever you go and "pull it right out of your back pocket" as the saying goes!! This activity is great for younger elementary students who are getting an introduction to all things kindness and all of the different ways that they can show kindness to others! For this activity, you will need string and scissor to help make it the most successful! My students LOVED being able to put their very own pocket together! I love the hands-on lessons as much as they do!

Looking for more kindness lessons and ideas? Check out the links below:

Kindness and the Impact of our Words (Upper Elementary/Middle School)

Kindness Classroom "Snowball" Fight (Upper Elementary/Middle School)

Kindness "Hot Potato!" (Elementary/Middle School)

Know Your Impact Activity (High School)

If you are looking for a fun, engaging, and interactive activity for your elementary students - this is for you!! This activity gets students working together, up and moving around, while they also practice perseverance, self-control, patience, and so much more! Add academic questions to each of the "snowballs" that they must answer to finish the race and watch all of the learning happen! So. Much. Fun!

An interactive Growth Mindset main activity + more included! Ideas provided for multiple grade levels to maximize your use! This activity puts an overall focus on introducing or better understanding growth mindset and what it sounds like, while also providing opportunity to turn it up a notch and have students come up with their own growth mindset statements and work toward building that skill. Interactive, engaging, and makes an impact! It's a win, win, win for classrooms!! Colored and black and white copies available. Everything you need for a full lesson provided!

Looking for a fun and creative way to help your students develop their Social Emotional Learning skills while promoting mindfulness? Look no further than our AVID Teacher's Mandala Coloring pages!

This downloadable PDF includes 8 unique mandalas, each featuring an inspirational quote to help motivate and inspire your students. Perfect for use in the classroom or at home, these mandalas provide a calming and reflective activity for students to color and share or use as inspiration to create their own mandalas with quotes.

By incorporating mindfulness into your curriculum, you'll be helping your students to reduce stress, improve focus, and promote overall well-being.

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